Questions and Answers From the Bluefield Information Desk
A Q and A column answers reader questions on local matters including highway curves near Bluefield, the Musicians Union head, garbage dumping rules, intercounty road work, Halloween origins, mail order firms, Princeton population figures, and Bramwell water rates. Readers are advised on road safety, fees, and municipal plans.
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Public Service Commission
Bramwell
Glenn Scott
Jones’ Hill
Thirty Held In Southern Airways Hijack Drama
In Orlando, a Southern Airways DC9 hijacked with three men and 30 hostages landed at McCoy AFB to obtain navigational charts after a 25 hour airborne odyssey from Alabama to Canada. The suspects demanded fuel money and a ransom, threatened to strike Oak Ridge nuclear plant, and were linked to Detroit and Oak Ridge.
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Orlando
Fla
Southern Airways
McCoy Air Force Base
Cuba
Alabama
McCoy
Chattanooga
Tenn
Havana
Key West
Boca Chica Naval Air Station
Canada
Tennessee
Oak Ridge
Detroit
FBI
CBS
Nixon
Florida White House
Key Biscayne
Neal Ball
White House
Henry Jackson
Lewis Moore
Melvin Cale
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Moore
Haig Widens Indochina Peace Mission
Gen. Alexander Haig expanded his role as White House peace envoy by flying to Phnom Penh for talks with Lon Nol after meetings in Saigon with President Thieu. The broadened package includes extra U.S. military aid to Cambodia before a cease-fire while Haig also planned visits to Bangkok and Seoul before returning to Washington.
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Saigon
Alexander M. Haig Jr
White House
Cambodia
Lon Nol
Nguyen van Thieu
Indochina
Haig
Phnom Penh
U.S
United States
Thieu
Bangkok
Thailand
South Korea
Chung Hee Park
Korea
South Vietnam
Washington
Nixon
Paris
France Soir
Saigon Radio
American Legion Honors Currence Wagner With Top Citizenship Award
Riley West Post No 9 in Bluefield names W L Stubby Currence and Judge F Morton Wagner among 33 Distinguished Citizens. ceremony honors veterans from World War I to Vietnam. Benjy Edwards reads Unknown Soldier tribute as Taps sounds. Ned Shott introduces Currence, noting family legacy.
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W. L. “Stubby” Currence
F. Morton Wagner
Riley-West Post
American Legion
Bluefield
Benjy Edwards
America
Edwards
Hanoi Boosts Air Defense Amid intensified Vietnam War actions
U.S. sources report North Vietnam moved more heavy antiaircraft guns into the southern panhandle as northern areas remained off limits. The North shot down three Navy A7 bombers, with two pilots rescued and one missing. Bien Hoa Air Base faced heavy rocket fire. casualties included Vietnamese civilians and military personnel, while U.S. forces increased air raids to over 180 daily in the Hanoi Haiphong region.
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Saigon
North Vietnam
Panhandle
U.S
South Vietnam
Bien Hoa
Hanoi
Washington
Haiphong
Death at Georgia drawbridge linked to national election
A freighter strike at a Georgia drawbridge caused a dozen cars to plunge into the channel in the night. The Telegraph reconstructs the tragedy on page 5A. Page 10A lists state by state election tallies. Reporter Jim Caffee covers Mercer County results on page 10. Dee Wilson speaks with Jim McNeely about bicycling across the nation in today’s Entertainment Review. Other features note scattered precincts and broad national profiles.
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Georgia
Telegraph
Mercer County
Jim Caffee
California
South Carolina
Dee Wilson
Jim McNeely
East River Mountain
Today
Entertainment Review
Daily Telegraph
94 Year Old Heir Plans Big Church Donation
George Schiller of Sandusky Ohio, aged 94, credited as sole heir to Otto Hoffmeister estate valued at 435000 says he will donate a sizable portion to his church. He learned he was closest living relative after probate judge ruled him Hoffmeister’s only surviving first cousin following five hearings. He plans to share his joy with his church and remarks the Lord has been kind.
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Sandusky, Ohio
George Schiller
Schiller
Cincinnati
Otto Hoffmeister
Hoffmeister
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
West Virginia- Virginia Line
K.B
W. Va
State Department of Highways
U.S. 460
SDH
Musicians’ Union
Peterstown
John Robert Palmer
Augusta St
Q. Gordon Lusk
New Hope
Sandlick
Frank Carroll
I. C
A. Lusk
Lusk
Health Department
Cashel Hill
Levern
Summers County
B. S
Summers
Department of Highways
Bluewell School
C. W
Princeton
West Virginia
B. N. Bluefield, Va
Monroe
Greenbrier
Randolph
Pocahontas
Webster
Pendleton
Tucker
Grant
Hardy
Hampshire
B. B
Bluefield, W
Gaul
Britain
Harriett Carter
Plymouth Meeting
M. K
P. O. Box
J. L.K
D. T
Southern Airlines
Odyssey
Cleveland
Toronto
Wagner
Ned. Shott
Daily Telegraph Printing Company
Currence
Shott
Ed Stone
Judge Wagner
Sykes
Ned Shott
Haltan
Cluefield
Buchanan County
Byrd’s
Dixon
Giles County Pheer
Otto Whit
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